Dress-maker&#39;s fitting apparatus



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Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

J. L. GARGELON. DRESS MAKERS FITTING APPARATUS.

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J. L. GARGELON' DRESS MAKBRS FITTING APPARATUS. No. 439,500.

Patented 0013.28, 1890.

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PATENT OFFICE.

OF CHICAGO, I LLINOIS.

DRESS-MAKERS FITTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,500, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed September 5, 1888. Serial No. 284,636. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JENNIE LEE GARcELoN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and Improved Dress-Makers Fitting Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a device to be used by dress-makers for obtaining the shape of a person for whom a garment is to be cutout and made.

The obj ect of the invention is to obviate the difficulties of dressfitting, to enable an inexperienced person to obtain a perfect fit of any form, to avoid the continual trying-on of the garment being made, to quickly and easily obtain an accurate fit, and to reduce the cost occasioned by fitting done by experienced dress-makers.

The invention consists in a harness-like apparatus to be applied to the figure of a woman and adjusted to the shape, which apparatus is constructed and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a view of the front of the invention, illustrating its use; and Fig. 2 is a View thereof from the rear.

The fitting apparatus consists of a harnesslike arrangement of a number of horizontal straps and vertical bands, as here shown, in the form of awaist, extending from the throat to below the waist. The vertical bands 1, by means of which the apparatus may be opened at front or rear, are secured at their upper ends to a collar-strap 2 and are connected together from top to bottom by hooks and eyes 3. The vertical bands at in front are connected at their upper end by buckles 5 to slitted shoulder-straps 6, connected by hooks and eyes 3 and secured at one end to the collar-strap 2 and at the other by buckles 5 to the arm-straps '7. The upper portion of vertical bands at is connected to horizontal straps 8, secured at one end to the front Vertical bands 1 and at the other end connected by buckles 5 to the arm-straps 7. The remaining portion of vertical bands 4 is slit, as

at S, and connected by hooks and eyes 3. The

slit portions of bands 4: are connected to gether and to front vertical bands 1 by horizontal straps 9 and buckles 5. The rear portion of the apparatus is constructed with vertical slit bands 10, fastened together by hooks and eyes 3, similarly to bands 4, and said bands are secured at their upper end to the arm-straps 7 and connected together and to rear vertical bands by means of horizontal straps 9 and buckles 5. Horizontal straps 9 also extend across the shoulders at the back, having one end secured to rear vertical bands 1 and the other end connected to arm-straps 7 by buckles 5. The bands 1 1 and slitted bands 4 10 are practically double bands, forming flaps, which may be disconnected and raised up to obtain access to the cloth in cutting.

By means of an apparatus constructed as above described, and having the shape and outline of a waist extending from the throat below the waist and the several parts adjustable by means of the straps 9 and buckles 5, a perfect fit may be obtained and transferred to or duplicated in the garment to be cut out.

By means of the hooks and eyes the ap paratus may be opened and its parts laid separately on the cloth in cutting the garment, and by this means, if there be inequalities in the sides of the person fitted, the inequalities may be copled. It is assumed that in employing the apparatus the person obtaining the duplicate of the form she wishes to fit has sufficient judgment to have charge of the cutting. This being the case, no experience and skill in fitting is necessary other than a simple explanation of the adjustment of the apparatus. In this way women may fit and make their own garments without knowing any rule of cutting or even one of the measurements of the garment to be made. There is no chance of making mistakes in cutting. In the case of prominent shoulderblades or unequal hips, the apparatus will note and provide for the irregularities of form. If the person to be fitted has on a stylishlycut garment, the cut as well as the fit can be copied.

Apparatus to obtain duplicate fits of skirts and sleeves may be constructed on the same principle.

The invention broadly comprehends an apparatus of this character by means of which 7 a duplicate fit may be obtained from the form 2. A dress-makers fitting apparatus, consisting of the collar-strap 2, Vertical front and rearbands 1, connected together by hooks and eyes, slitted shoulder-straps 6, arm-straps 7, vertical front and rear and side slitted bands; and 10, some of them secured to the col1ar-straps and others to the arm-straps, the portions of the said slitted straps 6, 4, and 10 being connected together by hooks and eyes, and horizontal straps 8 and 9, secured tothe bands 1 and connected to the arm-straps and to the vertical slitted straps by buckles, sub 30 stantially as herein shown and described.

J ENNIE LEE GAROELON.

Witnesses:

FRED. D. ROGERS, HANNAH MoHENRY. 

